Leadership Summit | T.D. Jakes

Here are the highlights from the final Leadership Summit talk from T.D. Jakes, the senior pastor of The Potter’s House.

• “When people are passionate about what they do, they are far more effective in what they do.”
• “Leadership is transition. It’s not maintaining.”
• “People follow people who move. People who take action. People who take risks.”
• You want to make sure the vision doesn’t get “diluted or polluted”.
• “People are passionate when you ask them to do something when it’s within their reach.”
• “When God gives you people, he’s given you something he really cares about.”
• “Passion is more then emotionalism. Passion is the fuel that makes the engine go.”
• “If you only surround yourself with people who do what you do, they only compete with you but they don’t complete you.”
• “When Jesus picked the 12 disciples, he didn’t pick one rabbi.”
• “If you have 2 or 3 confidants in your lifetime, you are a blessed person.”
• “Don’t try to hold people too tightly who are meant to come and go.”
• “You need to keep at least one ear-cutter on the team.”
• “Joshua was a fighter. He wasn’t a brief case carrier.”
• “You don’t want to kill the fight. You want to direct them to the target.”
• “You can’t be led by someone you can’t read well.”
• “When my heart is overwhelmed, I go to the Rock that is higher than me.”